Generally, INS statistics are published with the signature of the General Director alone after a favorable opinion from the validation committee (comprised of statisticians and dissemination specialists) regarding the INS output. Validation involves the data intended for publication.

The National Accounts framework is based on the SNA93. Each year during October, the Vice-Directorate of National Accounts and Economic Evaluation publishes provisional accounts with the specific tables on GDP valuation by industrial activity (44 activities according to ISIC rev. 2). GDP is estimated using two approaches: production and expenditure.

Coverage extends to transactions in goods and services, distributive transactions and financial transactions. The data cover all resident institutional units (corporations, general government, households, non-profit institutions). The data include an estimate of production in the informal sector. There is full coverage of the economic territory. GDP is calculated according to the production approach and the expenditure approach using a new nomenclature of 44 industries.

Food Crops: The processed data originates from the technical services of the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources (note that the data received are generally estimates as there has been no survey since 1974) except for imported foodstuffs such as wheat for which the accounting records from the company that holds the monopoly on imports (Grands Moulins d'Abidjan) must be examined.

The agricultural statistics services provide a valuation of gross output (which is potential output, obtained by multiplying sown areas by yields estimated on the basis of sampling). To obtain production in terms of the national accounts, an assessment of production losses should be deducted from this gross output. These losses are estimated by agricultural statistics as a fixed percentage of gross output.

Production values in current francs are obtained by simply multiplying production price by the output volume net of losses. This net output is broken down by use categories:- intermediate consumption (in the case of rice paddy)- home consumption- final consumption- gross fixed capital formation (only in the case of production classified in activity #3)- entry into inventories

Export Crops: The data on coffee, cacao, pineapple come from the Ministry of Agriculture (Price Stabilization Board). The supply and use balances in terms of physical amounts and value are developed each year for these different products. In the case of cotton, some companies in the modern sector (CIDT) have a monopoly on the purchase, ginning and export of this product. This is why the balances will be prepared based on information from the statistical tables of these companies.

The data on other export crops such as coconut, oil-palm, and rubber come from the technical units of the Ministry of Agriculture.

Forestry:(reforestation) is approximated based on records from government agencies, particularly investments relating to this sector and appearing in the Debt Amortization Fund (CAA) balance sheet. These investments are estimated from the figure for subsidies granted to SODEFOR for its operations. The data on log production and exports appear in the statistics from the Ministry of Agriculture.

Fishing: The data on commercial and traditional fishing are provided by the General Directorate of Fishing.

Mining: This sector is compiled in part from the accounting records of companies in the modern sector (in the case of crude oil, gold, quarries) and in part from supplemental data on the informal sector. The volume of production is valued by applying the rate of industrial production to the value of production in year n-1.

Manufacturing: The data generally come from company accounting records. They can be supplemented, as applicable, with the valuation of informal activity (e.g., in the case of bakeries, garages, etc.).

Energy and Gas: The data come from companies in the modern sector only (CIE, EECI, PETROCI, Gaz-Ivoire and other companies in this sector).

Construction and Public Works: This industrial activity includes two sectors, namely the industrial sector made up of companies with more than CFA 15 million (21500 dollars US per year) in sales and the traditional sector made up of companies that do not meet this criterion. The data on investments come in part from companies in this sector and in part from petroleum drilling companies. Production is valued on the basis of the aforementioned companies in the modern sector and the purchase values of construction materials.

Transportation and Telecommunications: Transportation is subdivided into subsectors: road, marine and lagoon transport, rail transport, air transport and auxiliary transport. In each case, data are reported with the detail of the transport of passengers and merchandise. Production will be valued case by case based on companies in the modern sector by subsector, and an estimate of the informal sector. The informal sector is dominant in this sector, primarily with respect to road and lagoon transport. Related data come from the national transportation planning manual.

Wholesale and retail trade: Output is based on the commercial margins declared by commercial companies (exporters of coffee, cacao, pineapple, cotton, etc.) and is then supplemented with an estimate for the informal sector (for retail trade).

Financial Intermediation: Output is valued primarily on the basis of the financial accounts of companies in this sector, plus monetary statistics from the central bank.

Government Agencies: Receipts and expenditures of government agencies are recorded in the Treasury balance and in the records of other public and quasi-public entities. Output is valued on the basis of production costs (intermediate consumption, compensation for salaried personnel, consumption of fixed capital).

Non-Profit Organization: Receipts and expenditures of non-profit organizations come from the financial accounts of private organizations benefiting from state subsidies (private education, private hospital centers, other organizations). Output is measured on the basis of current expenditures (intermediate consumption, compensation for salaried personnel).

Expenditure Approach

Household final consumption is based on an analysis of supply and use balances, i.e., a comparison between supply (domestic production and imports) and demand other than household final consumption (exports, intermediate consumption, and capital formation).

Government final consumption is valued based on the costs to produce the services of government agencies (intermediate consumption and compensation for salaried personnel minus sales plus provisions in kind).

Gross fixed capital formation is based on the forestry products (reforestation only), transport materials, materials and equipment and construction and public works. Gross fixed capital formation is valued by type of activity based on the statements of changes in financial position tables of companies in the modern sector, and the special investment budget of public administrations.

The change in inventories is measured on the basis of agricultural and livestock statistics and data on production from companies in the modern sector.

Data on imported and exported goods come from customs, corrected for smuggling and mail packages with rate, varying from one product to another.

Imports and exports of services are taken from the balance of payments.

The initial data are sometimes adjusted upwards to take into account production in the informal sector (as in the case of the fish production and canning industry or production of palm oil or textiles).

Production at current prices in the primary sector is the result of volume produced to which the production price is applied. For other economic activities, statistical sources provide the data directly at current prices.

In the primary sector, the statistics on production volumes make it possible to determine from one year to the next a volume index that when applied to the value of the preceding year's production yields production in n-1 francs (constant francs).

For economic activities in the manufacturing and energy sectors, the industrial production index is applied to production values in year n-1.

For construction and public works, the volume indicators are construction materials (sand, gravel), cement, sheet metal and tiles. A volume index is developed based on the volumes of the above-mentioned indicators.

The volume of trade is indicated by the volume of exports in coffee and cacao, the sales index of large commercial companies, the retail trade for which volume is indexed according to population growth.

Data on current prices in government administrations are deflated by a wage increase index and the intermediate consumption price index.

Expenditure Approach

Data at current prices are deflated using price indices.

In the case of intermediate consumption, the statistical tables on purchases of industrial companies make it possible to calculate a Paasche price index, which is then applied to the current value of intermediate consumption.

In the case of household final consumption, the household (industry worker type) consumer price index calculated by the INS is used.

In the case of government final consumption, the current price data are deflated using a composite index comprised of variations in salary rates and appropriate components of the intermediate consumer price index.

Commodity imports and exports are deflated using a Paasche price index, calculated on the basis of the major import and export products. The reconciliation of GDP valued according to production and GDP valued according to expenditure makes it possible to determine the volume of stocks (by balancing).

Reference Year:

The reference year for the series of accounts projected backward for 1986-1997 is the year 1996. The ERETES module has made it possible to create a new base year 1996 and to complete year 1997.

The statistical framework of reference for the Ivoirien National Accounts is based on the 1993 United Nations "System of National Accounts" (SNA93).

GDP is produced and disseminated annually by the INS at current prices and constant 1996 prices. The reference period is the calendar year.

All domestic economic activities are covered (companies, agencies, the informal sector and households, banks, insurance companies). The data include an estimate of output in the informal sector. Valuation is at market prices.GDP is calculated according to the production approach and the expenditure approach and according to a new nomenclature of 44 industries.

- The data on private administrations: The National Accounts have improved this account thanks to the collection of specific data on unions, political parties, non-governmental organizations, religious orders and other associations.

- Production in the informal sector: A survey was conducted to update the value added rates in this sector.

- Data on Household Income: A large survey (consumption budget survey) was conducted in 2001 involving about 10,000 households.

- Data on Employment and Housing: The general population and housing census of 1998, the results of which are now being analyzed, should make available reliable information on employment and housing in Côte d'Ivoire. In addition, the employment office AGEPE conducted an entire survey series on employment in 2001. Improvement in the collection of data with good definition of sources

ERETES: This approach calls for the implementation of a new classification of activities and products consistent with the international standard industrial classification (ISIC). The development of sectoral accounts, particularly the rest of the world account, will incorporate the recommendations of the IMF "Balance of Payments Manual", 5th edition.

Agricultural data: A national agricultural survey is planned by the Ministry of Agriculture with financial support from the European Union and FAO assistance. This survey will make it possible to establish new agricultural data and to improve estimates.

Data on the Census of Companies (1996): This census has made information available on the demographics of companies in Côte d'Ivoire and on their weight in terms of sales. However, the INS is in the process of improving its data collection system in order to provide a balance sheet central office that is sufficiently large and representative.

- An annual national survey on industry and a survey on private investment are planned for 2002. In addition, the producer price and monthly sales indices will compensate for the inadequacy of data on companies. Methodological and conceptual work has already begun for all these new operations. However, financing has not yet been arranged.

- Create an observatory. - Compilation of regional accounts- Capacity building to shorten the lag time for publication of the national accounts- Conduct survey on informal sector

- Financing needed for survey on industrial sector and for observatory. None

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